Biography
Prof. dr. Ferry Koster is Full Professor of Work and Institutions: Technological and Social Innovation at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His research focuses on work and organizations and who this related to the use of technologies, knowledge-intensification, and human resource policies, as well as the outcomes of these issues in terms of organizational performance and innovation.
Currently, he is one of the theme leads of the SSH-breed program Digitalisation, new ways of working and the new employee (NWW)
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Full professor | Organisation and Management
- koster@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Ferry Koster (2023) - Organizations in the knowledge economy. An investigation of knowledge-intensive work practices across 28 European countries - Journal of Advances in Management Research, 20 (1), 140-159 - doi: 10.1108/JAMR-05-2021-0176 - [link]
- Yuri S. Scharp, Claartje L. Ter Hoeven, Ward van Zoonen, Arnold B. Bakker, Marjan J. Gorgievski, Laura den Dulk & Ferry Koster (2026) - Hyperactive work?: How platform work differs from other working arrangements in the quality of work - Management Research Review, 49 (13), 139-164 - doi: 10.1108/MRR-09-2025-0756 - [link]
- Alissa Lysanne Van Zijl & Ferry Koster (2025) - Sectoral GVC embeddedness and organizational technology adoption. An analysis across sectors in 28 European countries - Innovation and Management Review, 22 (3), 162-174 - doi: 10.1108/INMR-06-2023-0094 - [link]
- Paul de Beer & Ferry Koster (2025) - Sticking Together or Falling Apart?: Solidarity in an Era of Individualization and Globalization - doi: 10.5117/9789089641281 - [link]
- Alissa Lysanne van Zijl & Ferry Koster (2024) - GVC embeddedness and innovation performance: an analysis across 28 European countries - European Journal of Management Studies, 29 (2), 195-209 - doi: 10.1108/EJMS-12-2023-0091 - [link]
- Ferry Koster & F Dekker (2019) - Mens en Maatschappij (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2018) - Netspar (External organisation) (Member)
Activity: Membership of committee › Academic - Ferry Koster (2017) - Mens en Maatschappij (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - P Wiepking & Ferry Koster (2011) - Effects of public and private social expenditures on individual wellbeing: a cross-national study (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Ferry Koster (2009) - American Journal of Political Science (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2009) - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2009) - Journal of European Social Policy (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2009) - Journal of Quantitative Criminology (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2009) - Social Forces (print) (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2006) - Sociologie (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2006) - Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2003) - Personnel Review (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ferry Koster (2002) - Gedrag en Organisatie (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic
- Ferry Koster, K. Sanders, M. Zwiers & Mattijs Lambooij (2005) - Effects of consistent human resource practices on organizational performance
Mens en Maatschappij
- Start date approval
- January 2024
- End date approval
- January 2027
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Lid redactieraad
NIPV
- Start date approval
- September 2024
- End date approval
- September 2027
- Place
- ARNHEM
4.2 Public Managers and Leadership
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM5050
4.2 Public Managers and Leadership
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM5050A
4.3 Master's Thesis
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-MSS001
4.1 Governing Organizations
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-MS2000
4.1 Nieuwe Sociale Risico's
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-MS2010
4.2 Governing economic activity
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-MS2020
1.2 Organisation & Management
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-SBC1040
1.4 Research Project
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-SPM1011
